Glastonbury Gear Guide - Hipster Edition

Glastonbury Gear Guide - Hipster Edition

It's all over for another year, just one this time. By all accounts the Stones lived up to the hype, Mumfords stomped a merry jig and the Arctic Monkeys delivered something for the rockers. That's for later however, here we check out the trendier, moustachioed set with our vintage, lenseless Geargoggles. Play along at home by giving yourself a point for every piece gear you share with artists here, 3 points for any artist where we've confirmed sight of a hipster in the crowd.

James Blake Synth Setup

Largely working alone in the studio with lots of effects and instruments means James has to pick a versatile rig when playing live. This picture nicely encapsulates what he's got going on.

The major pieces appear to be a Fender Tele, Moog Taurus, Nord Piano and just out of shot to the right is James' Dave Smith Instruments Prophet 08.

Being a big festival there were a lot of Neumanns being used alongside the SM58. It appears a KMS105 is being used on Mr. Blake.

No hipsters that we could see in this crowd, maybe he's gone mainstream, now that you can make out all the words he's singing.

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Guitars And Keys

Style is fleeting but class is permanent and it doesn't get much classier than black suits, black stage dressing, scowls and rock poses. Here they are towards the end of a great set crescendo, Warren Ellis wailing on violin and effects pedals (lots of them). The MicroKorg was used a bit earlier in the set.

Deap Vally

Similar to the Bad Seeds setup, some aggressive Tweed tone, Mustang bite and fuzz pedals are all in evidence.

Django Django

Django Django take their elaborate and varied sound to the stage without compromise. Plenty of interesting vintage gear and effects on the keyboard riser to help with that. On bass we can see an AshdownABM head and cab combination. Plus everyone's favourite gigging combo, the Hot Rod Deluxe.

Villagers

The Horrors

Looking pretty darn thin and hipster it's the Horrors. More interested in their new amps than their new clothes though, sporting Blackstar Artisan amps and what looks like an Orange AD200 bass amp in white.

Portishead

We already know quite a bit about what Portishead use in the studio from guitarist Adrian Utley going into detail about his love of Orange Amps, modular synths, delays and pedals. But even his extensive setup doesn't constitute everything happening on record, drums, samples, keys and of course Beth's vocals are all key components as well. No surprise that their live rig is pretty impressive and liable to cause extreme gear lust. If you are of a nerdvous disposition please look away now.

One vintage Italian analogue synth not enough for you? Clearly not as there's two here, one from Siel the other a Jen. Time was that you could pick these up relatively cheaply but as with all things vintage their popularity has greatly increased in recent years.

Somewhat more attainable is the evil sounding Korg Mono/Poly and a Moog Little Phatty. That's four analogue synths for those brooding atmospheres, backline consists of Ade's beloved Orange AD30, a Vox AC30, Ampeg stack and there also appears to be a vintage electric piano kicking around. Couldn't they just get a Nord like everyone else?

Portishead Glastonbury 2013

And if you're luck enough to own any of this glorious vintage analogue gear then consider you're self lucky, as it's triple hipster points thanks to this happy chappy in the crowd watching Portishead.

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